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Taverns throughout American history have produced a particular type of public sphere. In taverns people could mix together: Men drank alongside their employers. Early laws fixed the price that tavern-keepers could charge for a drink, so they couldn’t cater to only wealthy patrons. Add alcohol in there and it changes the way everyone relates to each other. You end up with accelerated relationships and occasionally cantankerous ones. People become more willing to go out and raise hell over things that they might have let go when sober.

Taverns and bars have always been where people share news and discuss it. There’s an unwritten code in most neighborhood bars that people are supposed to check their degrees at the door. You can find a lawyer, university professor, taxi driver and dishwasher all talking about politics, and nobody’s supposed to pull rank.

I started taking photos a long time ago as a child with a hand me down old Kodak camera that took a 125 film cartridge. At first it was simply a means to record events, places and people, but now I find excitement in trekking, usually by bicycle, through cities, small towns, rural communities, abandon industrial sites and old buildings. I absorb the sights, sounds, smells and lighting of new places and try to capture their essence and communicate something of their majesty, mystery, memory, and drama. For me photography is a way to share the excitement and beauty of the world and express my own unique view of it. It's an art and a powerful communicator.